Unbeaten champion Black Caviar is back in light work after she ballooned in the spelling paddock on the late spring grass.
Trainer Peter Moody described the five-year-old’s 60kg weight gain in the space of only 21 days as phenomenal and said he had no option but to get her moving towards her next assignment in the Group Two Australia Stakes (1200m) at Moonee Valley on January 27.
“She did unbelievably in three weeks so we had no option but to get her in,” Moody told Radio Sport National.
He said Black Caviar felt the impact of her last start in the Group One Patinack Farm Classic (1200m) at Flemington which was her 16th win in a row.
That led him to scrap plans to run the mare in the Group One Winterbottom Stakes in Perth on November 19.
“It took a bit off her and she went to the paddock probably 20 kilograms lighter than she usually does,” Moody said.
“She probably put that back on in fluids in three or four days and then probably put on 40 kilos or so.”
Moody said Black Caviar was in tremendous order and was at Peter Clarke’s pre-training complex at Murchison in central Victoria where she will build up fitness on the water-walker until the end of the year.
Black Caviar is only three wins away from joining two of the all time greats for the most consecutive wins at city class and higher.
Desert Gold, who was a stakes winner from 1914 to 1919 and Gloaming, who won feature races from 1918 to 1925, share the record of 19 wins in a row.
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